Survey Data
Reg No
11900402
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1790 - 1830
Coordinates
282194, 241239
Date Recorded
03/10/2002
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1810, possibly over basement on a symmetrical plan retaining early aspect with single-bay two-storey gabled breakfront having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor, two-bay two-storey side elevations and five-bay two-storey return with dormer attic to rear to east. Hipped roofs with slate (gabled to breakfront; gabled to dormer attic window to return to rear to east). Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on corbelled eaves (rendered eaves band to return to rear to east). Flat-roofed to porch. Materials not visible behind parapet wall. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Rendered band to eaves. Rendered dressings to gable forming ‘pediment’. Rendered walls to porch. Painted. Rendered dressings including corner pilasters and moulded cornice having blocking course over. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 6/6 timber sash windows. Round-headed openings to porch. Stone sills. Moulded rendered pilaster surrounds with moulded rendered archivolts having consoles. Timber casement windows with margins. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Shallow segmental-headed door opening to return to rear to east. Cut-stone surround. Timber panelled door with overlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds. Landscaped grounds to site. Gravel forecourt to front. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding, c.1810, to north-east on a quadrangular plan about a courtyard retaining early aspect with elliptical-headed integral carriageway. Some ranges now disused and part derelict. Gable-ended roofs with slate (partly collapsed to one range). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves course. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 6/6 and 2/2 timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings. Replacement glazed timber panelled doors, c.1980. Elliptical-headed integral carriageway. Rendered voussoirs. No fittings. Gravel grounds to forecourt.
Appraisal
Cappagh House is an attractive and well-maintained substantial house that retains most of its original form and character. Designed in a reserved Classical style without extraneous detailing, the front (west) elevation presents a balanced arrangement of Georgian proportions on a symmetrical plan centred about a gabled breakfront, in which the gable is treated as a pediment. The porch to ground floor comprises the only obvious concession to decorative incident, as identified by the ornamental render work, and was possibly an addition of the late nineteenth century. Most of the original features and materials remain intact, including multi-pane timber sash fenestration, the fittings to the door openings, and slate roofs having cast-iron rainwater goods. The retention of an early external aspect suggests that the interior may also incorporate important early or original features and materials, and the house is known to retain timber panelled shutters to the window openings. The house is complemented by an extensive range of outbuildings, formally arranged about a courtyard, which are similarly well-preserved to retain an early aspect (with the exception of one range that is now apparently disused and in the advanced stages of dereliction). The combination of the house and attendant outbuildings suggests the social and historic importance of the site as an example of an intact early nineteenth-century middle-size estate.